Committees of Correspondence
When Parliament reestablished parts of the Townshend Acts in 1772, which were taxes placed on goods imported into America, Samuel Adams called for Committees of Correspondence to write and inform the other colonies about Boston’s position. Part of the Townshend Acts required the Crown to pay judges' salaries. By doing so, judges were not dependent on the local area but on the Crown.
“Adams used a town meeting to enact his “Committee" explaining its role as:
“to state the rights of the colonists and of this province in particular, as men, as Christians, and as subjects: to communicate and publish the same to the several towns in this province and to the world. Prepare a letter to be sent to all the towns of this province and to the world, giving the sense of this town.” (https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/committees-correspondence)
Typically, towns would hold town meetings to resolve problems. Once Parliament began imposing taxes on the colonists, places like New York and Boston set up committees to address the acts Parliament imposed on them. The committees were usually headed by clergy, elders in the
Meeting of the Committees of Correspondence 1772 community, and successful businessmen. The committees were to disband after the act was rescinded, but that didn’t happen since Parliament kept passing act after act.
By 1773, the East India Company had a monopoly on tea through the Tea Act. Not only did the Tea Act grant the East India 
John Lamb reading the Tea ActCompany a monopoly on tea, but also other merchandise, such as fabrics, spices, drugs, etc. It granted the company power over the supply and prices of goods shipped to the colonies. This act was the one that “Broke the Camel’s Back”.
